Historical Marker

Snow Cemetery - Hawthorne, Charles Stone

Truro · Barnstable County

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The Story

Snow Cemetery - Hawthorne, Charles Stone is a historic object located at 3 First Parish Ln in Truro, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Built in 1930. It is a contributing property in a National Register historic district.

About this site

Snow Cemetery - Hawthorne, Charles Stone is a historical marker in Truro, Barnstable County. It is one of 250 historical markers documented in Barnstable County, among 6,897 historic sites cataloged across the county on MassRoam.

The site sits at 41.9976, -70.0554 near Truro. The nearest cataloged historic site is Snow Cemetery - Stevens, Richard Stone (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Snow Cemetery - Snow, Helen Stone, Snow Cemetery - l'Engle, Lucy Stone, and Snow Cemetery - Stevens, Levi Stone.

This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

This marker in Snow Cemetery notes the grave of Charles Webster Hawthorne (1872-1930), an American portrait and genre painter and an influential teacher. In 1899 he founded the Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown, the first outdoor summer school for figure painting, which helped establish the town as a leading American art colony. He is buried in Truro.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

📍 41.9976, -70.0554 · Truro, Barnstable County

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